Claude Henry VAUTIN

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Service Number:	540
Enlisted:	6 February 1914, Enlisted at Claremont, WA
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	Headquarters Australian Imperial Force (AIF)
Born:	Warracknabeal Victoria, Australia, 1889
Home Town:	Meekatharra, Meekatharra, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Soft goods man
Died:	St. Leonards, New South Wales, Australia, 1971, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Boulder K.E.T. Workers Roll of Honor, Trinity Church Perth HR

6 Feb 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 540, 10th Light Horse Regiment, Enlisted at Claremont, WA
8 Feb 1915:	Involvement 540, 10th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Mashobra embarkation_ship_number: A47 public_note: ''
8 Feb 1915:	Embarked 540, 10th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Mashobra, Fremantle
6 Jun 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, Australian Flying Corps (AFC)
8 Jul 1917:	Imprisoned POW of Turkey. Captured at Beit Hansen and interned in Egypt.
15 Oct 1920:	Discharged AIF WW1, Lieutenant, Headquarters Australian Imperial Force (AIF), Discharged at Sydney, NSW

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Son of Henry David Vautin and Annie Craig Vautin nee Barch C/- Mine Office, Royal Standard Mine, Yuin, WA formerly of Warracknabeal Victoria.

Commenced return to Australia 3 July 1920 aboard SS Orvieto disembarking on 6 August 1920 at Fremantle, WA

Medals: 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

During 1921c Claude married Janie I.M. James at Randwick, NSW

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